Boston Female Asylum. Historical account. By-laws, rules and regulations, 1898

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BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS.

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AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM,

1008 Washington Street. .

WITH THE

ACT OF INCORPORATION,

BY-LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS.

^eacott

Thomas Todd, Printer, 7-A Beacon Street.
1898

AN ACCOUNTT

OF THE

BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

The Boston Female Asylum was founded in the
year 1800, and was the first public charity projected
and established by women in the town of Boston.
From 1800 to 1811 the children were lodged in
houses hired by the Managers, who, in 1811, bought
from the heirs of Daniel Sargent, Esq., for $12,000,
an estate on or near Lincoln Street. The house
was altered to accommodate about forty children,
and was given up, thirty-four years later, in conse-
quence of changes in the neighborhood resulting
from the filling up of the South Cove and the es-
tablishment of a railway station in the vicinity.

In 1844 a committee, consisting of Dr. G. C.
Shattuck, Messrs. William Lawrence, Henry Hall,
and Thomas B. Wales, were requested to advise
with regard to the purchase of a lot of land in the
southerly part of the city, which seemed “ so remark-
ably adapted to the wants of the Institution that
it was thought the opportunity to obtain one with
similar advantages might never again occur.” They
recommended buying, if funds for a new house could
be raised. Subscriptions to the amount of $25,000
were received, and the corner stone of the pres-
ent building was laid on Tuesday, June 25, 1844.
Services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Frothingham,

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and a metal box, containing reports, pamphlets, news-
papers, etc., was placed beneath the stone.

A small volume printed before the building was
completed, probably for sale at a fair held in its
behalf, gives an account of the early history of the
Asylum and other interesting information relating to it.

The Asylum receives destitute girls, between the
ages of three and ten years, who are given up to its
guardianship until they become eighteen years old.
The word orphan having been used in connection
with the work of the Institution, a discussion arose
among the original Managers regarding the interpre-
tation of this term. Finally, at the meeting in Decem-
ber, 1800, it was voted to admit a girl, one of whose
parents was living, and this precedent has since been
followed. It is not the present aim of the Managers
to assume the charge either of children suitable for
adoption or of those having both parents living to-
gether; but there are many instances where, in con-
sequence of the death, desertion, or misconduct of
father or mother, the remaining parent is unable to
provide for one or more of the children, and yet it
is most important not to break off intercourse between
the members of the family. In such cases, to be re-
lieved of part of the burden often enables the father
or mother to keep the rest together, or perhaps the
struggle to do even that may be too hard, and some-
times as many as four sisters have been admitted.
It is not customary, however, to accept those children
who, having neither parent nor relatives with whom
it is desirable to keep up the family tie, can be cared
for by placing them at once in permanent homes.

Those wishing to have children received often ask
if they may be taken out again at the age of twelve

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years, or at such time as circumstances will admit.
The invariable answer is that no promise of the
kind can be given. If a parent or relation is able
to take charge of a girl and give her advantages
equal to those offered by another place, such parent
or relation would, of course, have the preference.
But the Managers for the time being must decide
respecting the suitableness of the situation. On the
other hand, if at any time within three months of
admission it shall be found that, from some cause
not previously known, the child is not a proper sub-
ject for this charity, she may be returned to those
by whom she was placed in the Asylum, or other-
wise provided for.

The friends of the children may visit them at
the Asylum in Boston on the afternoon of the first
Wednesday of every month, and in Lexington on the
second Saturday of the month; but the children are
not allowed to go out to see any friend except by
special permission. In case of any child being ill her
friends are notified.

Two or more of the girls are always retained
during their minority to serve in the Asylum on the
same conditions on which others are placed out.
Between the age of twelve and fourteen years the
girls are sent to families, living usually in the coun-
try or small towns, chosen by the Managers from
many applications ; the intention being to give them
opportunities for further schooling and training in
housework, and to have them treated as members of
said families, from whom they are to receive the sum
of $50; $20 of it on reaching the age of seventeen
and $30 at eighteen. As each girl is thus placed, one
of the Managers is appointed to take especial interest

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in her, and she is also under the supervision of a vis-
itor employed by the Board. Should the first home
not prove satisfactory further attempts are made to
establish her more advantageously. In this connec-
tion, as it is often undesirable to allow returned girls
to mingle with the others, a boarding place in a pri-
vate family is retained for such cases.

At the time that the site of the Asylum was se-
lected it was undoubtedly considered not too far out
of town to be within easy reach of the ladies in charge.
The convenience of the location still offers advantages,
but it has of late years been felt that in many other
respects it is unsuitable, and moreover that, in order
to afford to the children a wholesome, natural life, it
is desirable to avoid massing together so large a num-
ber as can be accommodated in this building.

The Asylum has accordingly been offered for sale,
and the preliminary step toward a change taken by
starting a new Home out of town. After much in-
vestigation the purchase was made in 1896 of about
nine acres of ground on high land in Lexington, in-
cluding a large house, barn, and outbuildings. The
house was easily altered to meet the requirements of
about twenty girls, with matron and assistants ; addi-
tional bedrooms for summer or hospital needs were*
arranged in the building, which, formerly a barn,
now serves largely as a playroom. The total ex-
pense has been nearly $14,500.

The undertaking has proved thus far successful.
With plenty of space in pure country air; living in
a house built for a private family, with compara-
tively small rooms, and the care of which is largely
intrusted to the children themselves under proper
supervision ; surrounded by kindly neighbors inter-

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ested in their welfare and advancement ; — these
twenty girls, with their caretakers, form a large fam-
ily, with as little as is possible of the atmosphere of
an institution. It was hoped that they would have
the further advantages of the public schools, but the
town of Lexington finds itself unable to furnish ac-
commodation for so large and sudden an increase in
pupils, and it is therefore necessary to have here, as
in Boston, a private teacher, who conducts school reg-
ularly for the children. In both places, also, those
who are old enough attend services and Sunday
school at a church not too far distant. Some
changes have been unavoidable, but they have al-
ways been welcomed and treated with the kindest
attention by the societies and their pastors, to whom
a large debt of gratitude is due.

A committee of two Managers, chosen every month,
visit both houses, confer with the Matrons, make nec-
essary purchases, attend to applications for admitting
or taking out children, and transact any business that
may be presented between the meetings of the Board.
They can be seen at the Asylum Saturday morning
at 10.30.

The Annual Meeting of subscribers — that is, of
'the Society — is held on the last Tuesday of October.
There are recitations and singing by the children, the
distribution of prizes from funds left for that purpose
many years ago, and short addresses. All persons
interested are invited to attend, and many graduates,
as well as friends of the children, avail themselves of
the invitation. The election of officers for the year
follows, and later the regular monthly meeting. The
yearly subscription is $3.00 and a life membership
$50.00. Since the carrying on of two houses neces-
sitates an increase in annual expenses, which now

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exceed the income, the Managers would gladly wel-
come new members and annual subscribers.

The number of children under the charge of the
Asylum is now about eighty.

The following forms are at present in use :

Form I.

FORM OF OBLIGATION TO BE SIGNED BY A PARENT OR
GUARDIAN ON GIVING UP A CHILD OR WARD TO THE
BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

I, the subscriber, being solicitous that my child shall
receive the benefits and advantages of the Boston Female
Asylum, and the Board of Managers of that Institution
being willing, provided I relinquish her to them, to re-
ceive and provide for her, I do hereby promise and en-
gage not to interfere with the management of her in any
respect, nor visit her without their consent. And in con-
sideration of the Boston Female Asylum thus receiving
and providing for her until she shall be of age to leave
the Asylum, and then placing her in a suitable home in
which to remain during her minority, I do hereby relin-
quish all right and claim to her and her services until she
shall be eighteen years of age. And I do engage that I
will not ask any compensation for the same, nor take her
from, nor induce her to leave, the family where she may
be placed by the Board of Managers.

Name of parent
or guardian.

Name of child.

Witness.

Date of admission.

Date of birth.

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Form II.

BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

The Managers of the Boston Female Asylum place

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on these conditions, to which we who take the above-named
child hereby agree.

We agree to keep her until

when she will be eighteen years of age, and to send to the
Treasurer of the Boston Female Asylum, on her behalf,
twenty dollars when she is seventeen years old and
thirty dollars when she is eighteen years old; and, when
she leaves us, to send her away with an outfit suitable to
her age.

We agree to send her to school until she is fourteen
years old, and thereafter she shall, if possible, continue
her studies at home, under the oversight of some mem-
ber of the family, if it is no longer convenient to send
her to school.

We agree to bring her up in habits of neatness, indus-
try, and virtue, and to exercise over her the same control
and discipline that good families exercise over their own
children.

We agree to send her regularly to church and Sunday
school, and not to allow her to go out in the evening un-
less under suitable guardianship; and, if the mistress of
the house should be obliged to be away over night, not
to leave the girl at home unless there is some responsible
woman in her place.

If, for any reason, we feel under the necessity of mak-
ing any serious complaint against the girl and asking the
Managers to remove her, we agree to give them at least
a month’s notice, to enable them to provide her with an-
other place.

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If the Managers believe that any of these conditions
have been violated, or that the girl is receiving ill treat-
ment, or that for any reason it is for her best good, they
reserve the right to take her back to the Asylum.

We, the undersigned, enter into this agreement on this
day of 189 .

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ACT OF INCORPORATION.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THREE.

AN ACT

TO INCORPORATE HANNAH STILLMAN AND OTHERS INTO A SOCIETY,

BY THE NAME OF THE BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

Whereas Hannah Stillman and a number of other
ladies of the town of Boston have associated for the char-
itable purpose of relieving, instructing, employing, and
assisting female orphan children, and, to carry their Asso-
ciation into effect, have petitioned to be incorporated, —

Section I. — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that the said Hannah Stillman and
her associates, together with such others as may become
subscribers to the same Institution, in the manner herein-
after provided, be, and they hereby are, incorporated into
a Society, by the name of the Boston Female Asylum ;
and by that name shall be a corporation forever, with
power to have a common seal, to make contracts relative
to the objects of their Institution, to sue and be sued, to
establish By-laws and Orders for the regulation of the said
Society, and the preservation and application of the funds
thereof — provided the same be not repugnant to the
constitution or laws of this Commonwealth ; to take, hold,
and possess any estate, real or personal, by subscription,
gift, grant, purchase, devise, or otherwise, tree from taxes,
and the same to improve, lease, exchange, or sell, and con-
vey, for the sole benefit of said Institution — provided the
value of the real estate of said Society shall never exceed
fifty thousand dollars, and the annual income of the whole
estate of said Society shall not exceed twenty thousand
dollars.

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Sect. II. — And be it further enacted, That every mar-
ried woman belonging to said Society, who shall, with con-
sent of her husband, receive any of the money or other
property of said Society, shall thereby render her said
husband accountable therefor to said Society; and every
woman, whether sole or married, who shall subscribe and
pay to the funds of said Society the sum of three dollars
annually, shall, by such subscription and payment, become
a member of said Society; liable, however, to be removed
whenever she shall refuse or neglect to pay her said annual
subscription.

Sect. III. — And be it further enacted. That the said
Society shall meet in Boston, on the last Tuesday of
September, annually, for the purpose of electing by bal-
lot, from their members, a First and Second Directress, a
Treasurer, a Secretary, and a Board of not less than six
nor more than twelve Managers; all which officers shall
hold their said offices for one year, and until others shall
be elected to succeed them. And the Managers for the
time being shall publish a notification of the time and
place of each annual meeting, in two of the newspapers
printed in Boston, at least seven days before the time of
holding the same. Upon any urgent occasion the First
or Second Directress, or, in their absence, the Secretary,
or, whenever requested in writing by fifty members of said
Society, any five of the Managers, may appoint a special
meeting of said Society, to be notified in the same man-
ner as annual meetings. And, at any regular meeting, the
Society may remove any Manager from office, and, by bal-
lot, fill any vacancy in the Board of Managers or any other
corporate office — provided that, in case of removal, two-
thirds of the members present, being a majority of the
whole corporation, shall concur.

Sect. IV. — And be it further enacted. That the Treas-
urer of said Society shall always be a single woman, of
the age of twenty-one years or upwards ; and shall give
bond, with sufficient surety or sureties, to account annu-

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ally, or oftener if required by said Society or the Board
of Managers, for all money and other property of said
Society coming to her hands; and, in general, to dis-
charge the duties of her said office with fidelity.

Sect. V. — And be it further enacted, That the Board
of Managers for the time being shall have the management
and application of the subscriptions, funds, and estate of
the Society, solely for the purpose of this Institution ; and
no sale or transfer of any real or personal estate of said
Society shall be valid, unless approved by them ; and no
money shall be paid out of the treasury of said Society,
except by their order. They shall likewise have authority,
at their discretion, to take into their Asylum such female
orphan children as they may judge suitable objects of
charity, to enjoy the benefits of the Institution; and also
to accept a surrender, in writing, by the father, or, where
there is no father, by the mother, of any female child or
children, to the care and direction of said Society; and
to bind out in virtuous families, until the age of eighteen
years, or marriage within that age, any such orphans or
children thus surrendered, or any female child or children,
who, being destitute of parents within this Commonwealth,
shall have been relieved and supported by said Society —
provided that any parent whose child or children, during
the absence of their said parent out of this Commonwealth,
shall have received relief and support, or been bound out
as aforesaid, shall have liberty, on his or her return, to
receive such child or children, upon paying to the Treas-
urer of said Society the expense incurred in her or their
relief and support, as aforesaid. And the Managers shall
have authority to establish any Rules and By-laws for the
regulation of the proceedings of said Board, and the con-
cerns of said Society, not repugnant to the laws of the
Commonwealth or the By-laws and Orders of said So-
ciety. Not less than three Managers shall constitute a
quorum for transacting business; and all questions shall
be decided by the votes of a majority of the Managers
present.

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Sect. VI. — And be it further enacted, That any writ
or process against said Corporation may be served by the
officers leaving an attested copy thereof with the Treasurer
of said Society, or at her usual place of residence, thirty
days before the return-day thereof; and the said Treasurer,
or any agent appointed for that purpose by the Society or
by the Managers, may appear by attorney, and defend or
prosecute any suit in behalf of said Society.

Sect. VII. — And be it further enacted. That all in-
struments of conveyance or contract which may lawfully
be made by said Society, if approved by the Board of
Managers, shall be signed by the First or Second Direc-
tress, and countersigned by the Secretary, and, if neces-
sary, sealed with the common seal of said Society; and,
when so executed, shall bind the said Society, and be
valid in law.

Sect. VIII. — And be it further enacted. That Hannah
Stillman shall continue First Directress; Sarah Bowdoin,
Second Directress; Elizabeth Perkins, Treasurer; Eliza-
beth Thurston, Secretary; Mary Hubbard, Sarah Park-
man, Hannah Smith, Mary Gray, Abigail May, Margaret
Whitwell, Elizabeth Dorr, Mary Grew, Ann Green, Mar-
garet Cooper, and Elizabeth Goodwin, Managers — until
the last Tuesday of September next, and until a new
election shall be made as aforesaid ; and shall be, and
they hereby are, invested during said time with all the
powers which are herein given to the Managers to be
annually elected by the Society.

In the House of Representatives, Feb. 25, 1803.
This bill, having had three several readings, passed to be enacted.

JOHN C. JONES, Speaker.

In Senate, Feb. 26, 1803.

This bill, having had two several readings, passed to be enacted.

DAVID COBB, President.

Feb. 26, 1803. By the Governor approved.

CALEB STRONG.

A true copy : Attest.

JOHN AVERY, Secretary.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR.

AN ACT

IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

The Boston Female Asylum may hold real estate to
the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars, anything in
the Act incorporating said Asylum to the contrary not-
withstanding.

Approved March 15, 1844.

[Chapter 45.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE.

AN ACT

RELATING TO THE ANNUAL MEETING AND NUMBER OF MANAGERS OF THE
BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows :

Section III of the Act to incorporate the Boston Female
Asylum, passed on the twenty-sixth day of February in the
year eighteen hundred and three, is amended so that the
annual meeting of said Society shall be held on the last
Tuesday in October, and the Board of Managers shall not
exceed sixteen in number.

Approved March 14, 1883.

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[Chapter 82.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX.

AN ACT

AUTHORIZING THE BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL
AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section I. — The Boston Female Asylum may hold
real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Sect. II. — So much of Section I of Chapter 49 of the
Acts of the year eighteen hundred and three as relates to
the annual income which said corporation may receive is
hereby repealed.

Sect. III. — This act shall take effect upon its passage,
but shall not become operative until accepted by vote of
the corporation.

Approved February 15, 1896.

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BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS

ESTABLISHED BY THE BOARD OF MANAGERS.

I. A meeting of the Board of Managers shall be held
on the last Tuesday in every month, at the Asylum House,
for the purpose of attending to the concerns of the Society.
The time of meeting shall be at half-past ten o’clock a.m.

II. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to notify and
attend all meetings of the Society and of the Board of Man-
agers, keep a fair and correct record of their proceedings,
and do all necessary writing relative to the business of the
Corporation. In case of the sickness or absence of the
Secretary, or vacancy of the office, the First Directress,
in her absence, sickness, or vacancy of the office, the
Second Directress, and in the absence or sickness of
the Second Directress, or vacancy of both offices, the
eldest Manager shall notify meetings of the Society or
Board, when a Secretary pro tern, shall be chosen ; and
four days’ notice shall be given of any meeting of the
Society or Board, except on some extraordinary occasion.

III. The First Directress shall preside at the meet-
ings of the Board of Managers, preserve order, and, in
equal divisions, have the casting vote; in her absence
the Second Directress shall preside at the meetings of
the Board; and, if both be absent, the Managers shall
choose a member to preside for that meeting.

IV. The Treasurer shall attend the meetings of the
Board of Managers ; and shall, at the end of every six
months, settle her account with a Committee to be ap-
pointed for that purpose by the Board; and not any
moneys or other property, belonging to the Society, shall
be paid or delivered to the Treasurer until bonds, in the
penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, with sureties suffi-
cient in the opinion of the Board, shall be duly executed.

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conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of
her office.

V. All accounts against the Society shall be laid be-
fore the Board of Managers for examination ; and no bill
shall be paid by the Treasurer without the approval of the
Managers.

VI. No child shall be received into or dismissed from
the Asylum, or placed in any family, without a vote of the
Board, at a regular meeting duly notified.

VII. No child under three or more than ten years of
age shall be received into the Asylum ; and, at a suitable
age, the children shall be placed in virtuous families “until
the age of eighteen years, or marriage within that age.”

VIII. A Committee of two ladies shall be chosen
every month to examine the children of the Asylum re-
specting their proficiency in learning, inquire into their
treatment, and report at every meeting of the Board.

IX. No relative or friend shall interfere in the man-
agement of the children of the Asylum, nor visit them but
in the presence of the Matron, nor at any time that such
visits are disapproved by the Board.

X. A sample of the bread, meat, and other provisions
used in the Asylum shall be produced, whenever required,
to the Board or Monthly Committee.

XI. The children shall be in the custody of the
Matron.

XII. The Matron shall not be absent from, or sleep
out of, the Asylum, without permission from one of the
Board, unless upon some urgent occasion. She shall visit
the children’s rooms every night before going to bed.

XIII. No child shall be placed out of the Asylum
until she has reached the age of twelve years, unless
she be adopted.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHILDREN IN THE ASYLUM.

I. All the children (if the weather permit) shall regu-
larly attend public worship with their Matron, every Sun-
day, at such place as the Board shall direct.

II. The Matron, to whose care the management of the
children is more immediately confided, shall attend them
at their meals and see that proper decorum be observed.
She shall also read a chapter in the Bible, and pray with
them every day ; and endeavor, by precept and example,
to instill into their minds the principles of religion.

III. The children shall be taught to pay a sacred re-
gard to truth and to the performance of every moral duty.

IV. They shall be taught to spell, read, and to work
in plain sewing, knitting, and marking; and those who are
old enough shall mend their own clothes, and assist, by
weekly rotation, in the domestic business of the family.

V. The Matron shall not suffer any of the children to
be absent from the Asylum without special permission, in
writing, from one of the Managers.

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BOARD OF MANAGERS.
1897-98.

First Directress, Miss Abby M. Storer.
Treasurer, Miss Sarah C. Paine.
Secretary, Mrs. Arthur H. Nichols.

Miss Abby M. Storer.
Miss Sarah C. Paine.
Miss Marianne Paine.
Mrs. Chandler Robbins.
Mrs. E. C. Clarke.

Mrs. J. R. COOLIDGE.
Miss M. C. Mixter.

Mrs. A. L. Lowell.

Mrs. A. F. Wadsworth.
Mrs. Arthur W. Blake.
Mrs. Arthur H. Nichols.
Miss Caroline P. Cordner.
Miss S. F. Bradlee.

Miss Katharine Whitman.
Mrs. Robert W. Lord.

Miss Frances M. Robinson.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS.

Baker, Mrs. William E.
Bradlee, Miss S. F.
Brimmer, Mrs. Martin
Bullard, Mrs. Otis
Clarke, Mrs. Eliot C.
Coolidge, Mrs. J. Randolph
Cordner, Miss Caroline P.
Dexter, Mr. F. Gordon
Goodwin, Miss Eliza
Hill, Mrs. Adams S.
Kimball, Mrs. M. Day
Lord, Mrs. R. W.

Lowell, Mrs. A. Lawrence
Lyman, Mrs. Theodore
Mixter, Miss M. C.

Nichols, Mrs. A. H.

Paine, Miss M.

Paine, Miss S. C.

Parkman, Mr George F.

Reed, Mrs B. F.

Robbins, Mrs. Chandler
Robinson, Miss Frances M.
Sears, Mrs. Philip Howes
Sprague, Mrs. Francis P.
Storer, Miss Abby M.
Wadsworth, Mrs. Alexander F.
Wadsworth, Mrs. Oliver F.
Ware, Mrs. Charles E.

Weld, Mrs. Moses W.
Whitman, Miss Katharine

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PAST AND PRESENT LIFE MEMBERS.

Adams, Mrs. Abel
Amory, Mrs. John
Amory, Mrs. Nathaniel
Appleton, Mrs. Nathan
Appleton, Mrs. William
Barnard, Mrs. Charles, Sr.
Blake, Mrs. Arthur W.

Blake, Mrs. Joshua
Bradlee, Mrs. J. P.

Brooks, Mrs. P. C.

Bussey, Mrs. Benjamin
Codman, Mrs. Catherine
Codman, Mrs. Edward
Coffin, Miss Margaret
Cook, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cruft, Mrs. Edward
Cruft, Miss A. Pickman
Cruft, Miss Harriet Otis
Davis, Mrs. Charles
Davis, Mrs. Joshua
Dennie, Miss Caroline
Derby, Mrs. Elizabeth
Doane, Mrs. G. W.

Dorr, Mrs. Elizabeth
Eckley, Mrs. David
Emmons, Mrs. N. H.

Everett, Mrs. Otis
Fearing, Mrs. Albert
Frothingham, Miss P. L.
Gibson, Mrs. Charles L.

Grew, Mrs. Henry
Hall, Mrs. Henry
Head, Mrs. Joseph
Huntington, Mrs. Joshua
Inches, Miss Charlotte L.
Inches, Miss Elizabeth Brimmer
Jackson, Mrs. Susan
Joy, Miss Abby
Kimball, Mrs. M. D.

Lamb, Mrs. Rosanna
Lawrence, Mrs. Abbott
Lawrence, Mrs. Amos

I Lawrence, Mrs. William
Lawrence, Miss Gertrude
Lincoln, Mrs. Francis
McGregor, Mrs. James
McLean, Mrs. John
Mills, Mrs. James K.

Nichols, Mrs. Joanna
Otis, Miss Mary
Parkman, Mrs. Sarah
Perkins, Mrs. James, Sr.
Perkins, Miss Hannah
Pickman, Mrs. B. T.

Prescott, Mrs. William
I Reed, Mrs. B. T.

Reynolds, Mrs. William
i Sargent, Mrs. Turner
Sears, Mrs. David
Shattuck, Mrs. George C.
Shattuck, Mrs. G. C.

I Shattuck, Mrs. George C., Jr.
• Shattuck, Miss Lucy B.

I Smith, Mrs. Mary L.
j Smith, Mrs. Samuel
I Smith, Mrs. William
j Sohier, Mrs. William D.

1 Thorndike, Mrs. Israel, Sr.

. Thurston, Mrs. William
Ticknor, Mrs. George
Tracy, Miss Caroline Dennie
Tracy, Mrs. Charles
Tracy, Mrs. Frederic U.
Tracy, Mrs. F. U.
Wainwright, Mrs. Henry C.
Wales, Mrs. Abby L.

Wales, Mrs. T. B.

Wales, Mrs. George W.
Wales, Miss Mary Anne
Welles, Miss Susan J.
Wheeler, Mrs. Ann
Whiteside, Mrs. Alexander
Wigglesworth, Miss Anne
Young, Mrs. Alexander